You have got to be shitting me.... I totally thought this whole time you guys were watching My Little Pony. Just had a Shamalammadingdiong moment. Months of confusion and looking at my screen like "W....T....F" all made sense in a matter of seconds.

That said... make sure I get an invite to the next viewing party please.

You have got to be shitting me.... I totally thought this whole time you guys were watching My Little Pony. Just had a Shamalammadingdiong moment. Months of confusion and looking at my screen like "W....T....F" all made sense in a matter of seconds.

That said... make sure I get an invite to the next viewing party please.

That's the thing, really. When people hear MLP, they think of the franchise born out of the '80s that was aimed at little girls strictly to drive sales of merchandise. That's all My Little Pony was all the way through the 90's.

Lauren Faust directs and writes MLP:FiM. You know Faust from awesome Cartoon Network shows like The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. Both shows were surprisingly gender-neutral, and remarkably fun to watch regardless of your age.

When Faust was given the rights to make a new MLP show on the new Hub Network, she had a fully clean slate. It was her personal mission to totally reinvent My Little Pony as a franchise and make it something much less 'light and fluffy'.

What resulted is My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. It's a character driven cartoon that focuses more on minor slapstick and absurdity than brushing hair and dress-up time. The show is akin to Dexter's Lab, Hey Arnold, or Johnny Bravo.

You have to forget EVERYTHING you've ever known about MLP. This isn't for girls, it's for everyone to enjoy. And if you can manage to not think about what MLP was and watch a few episodes, I guarantee you will at least get slight enjoyment out of it.